Morphosyntactic Variation In Medieval Celtic Languages

Author : Elliott Lash,Fangzhe Qiu,David Stifter
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110680744

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Morphosyntactic Variation in Medieval Celtic Languages by Elliott Lash,Fangzhe Qiu,David Stifter Pdf

This book showcases the state of the art in the corpus-based linguistics of medieval Celtic languages. Its chapters detail theoretical advances in analysing variation/change in the Celtic languages and computational tools necessary to process/analyse the data. Many contributions situate the Celtic material in the broader field of corpus-based diachronic linguistics. The application of computational methods to Celtic languages is in its infancy and this book is a first in medieval Celtic Studies, which has mainly concentrated on philological endeavours such as editorial and literary work. The Celtic languages represent a new frontier in the development of NLP tools because they pose special challenges, like complicated inflectional morphology with non-straightforward mappings between lemmata and attested forms, irregular orthography, and consonant mutations. With so much data available in non-electronic form and ongoing efforts to convert these data to computer-readable format, there is much room for the developing/testing of new tools. This books provides an overview of this process at a crucial time in the development of the field and aims to the data accessible to computational linguists with an interest in diachronic change.

Author : Elliott Lash,Fangzhe Qiu,David Stifter
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110680799

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Morphosyntactic Variation in Medieval Celtic Languages by Elliott Lash,Fangzhe Qiu,David Stifter Pdf

This book showcases the state of the art in the corpus-based linguistics of medieval Celtic languages. Its chapters detail theoretical advances in analysing variation/change in the Celtic languages and computational tools necessary to process/analyse the data. Many contributions situate the Celtic material in the broader field of corpus-based diachronic linguistics. The application of computational methods to Celtic languages is in its infancy and this book is a first in medieval Celtic Studies, which has mainly concentrated on philological endeavours such as editorial and literary work. The Celtic languages represent a new frontier in the development of NLP tools because they pose special challenges, like complicated inflectional morphology with non-straightforward mappings between lemmata and attested forms, irregular orthography, and consonant mutations. With so much data available in non-electronic form and ongoing efforts to convert these data to computer-readable format, there is much room for the developing/testing of new tools. This books provides an overview of this process at a crucial time in the development of the field and aims to the data accessible to computational linguists with an interest in diachronic change.

Author : Carlos García-Castillero
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2020-07-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110680324

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Clause Typing in the Old Irish Verbal Complex by Carlos García-Castillero Pdf

Austin’s words on page 1 of his seminal work How to do things with words are valid for this study on clause typing in the Old Irish verbal complex: “The phenomenon to be discussed is very widespread and obvious, and it cannot fail to have been already noticed, at least here and there, by others. Yet I have not found attention paid to it specifically”. Old Irish, a regular V1 language, morphologically distinguishes six clause types, to wit, declarative, relative, wh- and polar interrogative, responsive and imperative clause types. After discussing the constituency of the Old Irish verbal complex and the pragmatically marked orders, i.e. cleft-sentence and left-dislocation, the form, function, paradigmatic consistency and syntax of those clause types are then analysed in detail. The other main issues of this study are the descriptively adequate paradigm of clause types and the interaction of clause typing with subordination and with non-verbal predication in Old Irish. This monograph offers a comprehensive view of clause typing, its morphological expression and related phenomena in the earliest Insular Celtic language, and may also contribute to the general consideration of these topics in both the typological and diachronic perspectives.

Author : Martin J. Ball,Nicole Muller
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 700 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2012-11-12
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781136854729

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The Celtic Languages by Martin J. Ball,Nicole Muller Pdf

This comprehensive volume describes in depth all the Celtic languages from historical, structural and sociolinguistic perspectives, with individual chapters on Irish, Scottish, Gaelic, Manx, Welsh, Breton and Cornish. Organized for ease of reference, The Celtic Languages is arranged in four parts. The first, Historical Aspects, covers the origin and history of the Celtic languages, their spread and retreat, present-day distribution and a sketch of the extant and recently extant languages. Parts II and III describe the structural detail of each language, including phonology, mutation, morphology, syntax, dialectology and lexis. The final part provides wide-ranging sociolinguistic detail, such as areas of usage (in government, church, media, education, business), maintenance (institutional support offered), and prospects for survival (examination of demographic changes and how they affect these languages). Special Features: * Presents the first modern, comprehensive linguistic description of this important language family * Provides a full discussion of the likely progress of Irish, Welsh and Breton * Includes the most recent research on newly discovered Continental Celtic inscriptions

Author : Randall Hendrick
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2020-01-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004373228

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The Syntax of the Modern Celtic Languages by Randall Hendrick Pdf

This volume, one of the few devoted to Celtic syntax, makes an important contribution to the description of Celtic, focusing on the ordering of major constituents, pronouns, inflection, compounding, and iode-switching. The articles also address current issues in linguistic theory so that Celticists and theoretical linguists alike find this book valuable.

Author : Paul Russell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317894568

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An Introduction to the Celtic Languages by Paul Russell Pdf

This text provides a single-volume, single-author general introduction to the Celtic languages. The first half of the book considers the historical background of the language group as a whole. There follows a discussion of the two main sub-groups of Celtic, Goidelic (comprising Irish, Scottish, Gaelic and Manx) and Brittonic (Welsh, Cornish and Breton) together with a detailed survey of one representative from each group, Irish and Welsh. The second half considers a range of linguistic features which are often regarded as characteristic of Celtic: spelling systems, mutations, verbal nouns and word order.

Author : Hildegard L. C. Tristram
Publisher : Universitätsverlag Potsdam
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Celtic languages
ISBN : 9783940793072

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The Celtic Languages in Contact by Hildegard L. C. Tristram Pdf

Author : Jan Niehues
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2008-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783640214082

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The Influences of the Celtic Languages on Present-Day English by Jan Niehues Pdf

Thesis (M.A.) from the year 2006 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1, University of Marburg, 80 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: The perceived lack of Celtic loanwords in English has generally been seen as proof that the Anglo-Saxon invaders made short notice of their Celtic predecessors when they took possession of Britain during the fifth century. Thus, the Celts simply would not have had the chance to leave their mark on the English language as they were either killed, driven into the sea or had to take refuge in the mountainous West and North of Britain. The possibility of any Celtic influence on the very structure of English has been discounted altogether. In recent years, this view has met mounting opposition from different fields of study. New archaeological evidence as well as a methodological reassessment have called for a examination of the history of the Anglo-Saxon immigration. Besides, new advances in contact linguistics provide tools with which a more detailed look on the history of the English language has become possible.

Author : Markku Filppula,Juhani Klemola,Heli Paulasto
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2008-06-03
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781134501731

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English and Celtic in Contact by Markku Filppula,Juhani Klemola,Heli Paulasto Pdf

English and Celtic in Contact provides the first comprehensive account of the history and extent of Celtic influences in English. Drawing on both original research and existing work, it covers the earliest medieval contacts and their linguistic effects as well as the reflexes of later, early modern, and modern contacts.

Author : Robert D. Borsley,Ian G. Roberts
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1996-03-28
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780521481601

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The Syntax of the Celtic Languages by Robert D. Borsley,Ian G. Roberts Pdf

This 1996 volume brings together ten chapters on the Celtic languages using the insights of principles-and-parameters theory. The leading researchers in the field examine Welsh, Irish, Breton and Scots Gaelic in comparative perspective, making reference to recent work on English, French, Arabic, German and other languages. The editors have provided a substantial introduction which seeks to make the volume accessible to theoreticians unfamiliar with the Celtic languages and also to Celtic specialists who are less familiar with the theoretical framework underpinning the work. The Syntax of the Celtic Languages makes a substantial contribution both to linguistic theory and to our understanding of the Celtic languages.

Author : Rebecca Woods,Sam Wolfe
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 928 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780192582577

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Rethinking Verb Second by Rebecca Woods,Sam Wolfe Pdf

This volume provides the most exhaustive and comprehensive treatment available of the Verb Second property, which has been a central topic in formal syntax for decades. While Verb Second has traditionally been considered a feature primarily of the Germanic languages, this book shows that it is much more widely attested cross-linguistically than previously thought, and explores the multiple empirical, theoretical, and experimental puzzles that remain in developing an account of the phenomenon. Uniquely, formal theoretical work appears alongside studies of psycholinguistics, language production, and language acquisition. The range of languages investigated is also broader than in previous work: while novel issues are explored through the lens of the more familiar Germanic data, chapters also cover Verb Second effects in languages such as Armenian, Dinka, Tohono O'odham, and in the Celtic, Romance, and Slavonic families. The analyses have wide-ranging consequences for our understanding of the language faculty, and will be of interest to researchers and students from advanced undergraduate level upwards in the fields of syntax, historical linguistics, and language acquisition.

Author : Andrew Cairnie
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2011-05-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781443830515

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Formal Approaches to Celtic Linguistics by Andrew Cairnie Pdf

This collection brings together the latest research into the syntax, semantics, phonology, phonetics and morphology of the Celtic languages. Based on presentations given at the Formal Approaches to Celtic Linguistics Conference in 2009, this book contains articles by leading Celtic linguists on Breton, Modern Irish, Old Irish, Scottish Gaelic, and Welsh, on a wide variety of topics ranging from the syntax and semantics of clefts to the articulatory phonology of fortis sonorants.

Author : Michael Hornsby,Karolina Rosiak
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2019-01-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781527524491

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Eastern European Perspectives on Celtic Studies by Michael Hornsby,Karolina Rosiak Pdf

This volume brings together contributions from a range of scholars, not only from the Celtic heartlands, but further afield such as Austria, Canada and Poland. The chapters are based upon a number of presentations on a wide range of Celtic Studies given at a conference in Poznań, Poland, in October 2014. The book, as such, emphasizes the international aspect of the field, and highlights the relatively strong position of Celtic Studies in Poland, through the inclusion of Polish scholars working on Irish and Breton, and by introducing an academic audience to the ‘conversation’ on Celtic matters which was held recently on Polish soil. Celtic Studies are currently undergoing a series of changes with respect to the approaches adopted, and the field is brought into question in this volume with an examination of the notion of Celtoscepticism, which, as pointed out, when tackled in the right way, can breathe new life into the subject and can be viewed as a positive movement. As such, a number of contributions here problematize the changes in thinking of many linguists over the concept of who is a speaker of a Celtic language and how well they speak it, as well as the connection between traditional Celtic cultural practices and the concept of well-being. The volume also provides chapters on Mediaeval Celtic Studies which showcase the work of a number of emerging scholars in the field, who examine various aspects of Celtic textuality in Mediaeval Scotland, Brittany and Wales. Indeed, this book gives voice to a number of early career scholars, placing them carefully alongside more established scholars in the field, in order to show the continuation of established methods of investigation.

Author : Eric P. Hamp
Publisher : Ford & Bailie Publishers
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : UCSC:32106009454460

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Celtic Language, Celtic Culture by Eric P. Hamp Pdf

Author : Randall Hendrick
Publisher : Emerald Group Pub Limited
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0126061041

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The Syntax of the Modern Celtic Languages by Randall Hendrick Pdf

This volume, one of the few devoted to Celtic syntax, makes an important contribution to the description of Celtic, focusing on the ordering of major constituents, pronouns, inflection, compounding, and iode-switching. The articles also address current issues in linguistic theory so that Celticists and theoretical linguists alike find this book valuable.